The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Brown Man Group (feat. The Dr. Seuss of Masturbation Jokes)

Episode Date: December 9, 2025

"I'll say the M-word. I don't care." We're divin' hog first into another Local Hour discussing the Miami Hurricanes and Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Mike Ryan has been digesting Notre Dame podcasts non-stop in preparation for an upcoming chicken s**t press conference, and he is ready to start breaking down the upcoming Texas A&M game. Also, Amin is sick, David is loud wrong about Millie Bobby Brown, and Zas knows a little something about the Lord's start time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What the hell was that football game last night? Oh, my God. What the hell was that football game last night? Oh, my God. It was Eagles Chargers, I mean. Oh, yeah, I know. What the hell was that? Just figure.

Just figure. Oh, my God. Eight turnovers. Oh, too many turnovers. You can't win with that many turnovers. What are you doing? I'm yes-ending. He's a good point, though.

He's got a good point. I don't know, man. Sully had a game. Came away with four interceptions. Yo, I love the. All right my guy Drew Carter is like the voice of the alt broadcast now and I love Monsters Inc I mean who I mean you know about Monsters Inc right do I know about Monsters Inc. I do by the Monsters University I do I do pretty cool it's it's really good but I prefer Monsters Inc. to Monsters

University I'm all about Monsters University no I love it I love pledging yeah and you got the the one jerk comes through with the Letterman jacket you think it's better than Monsters Inc? I like it better Monster Inc is so sweet man And the little girl, you know, that old broadcast was so funny last night because they couldn't handle all the turnovers and like the interception and the fumble and the fumble and the fumble and the fun, like there were like three turnovers on one play and like it was going bananas. You watched, you had that on? Look at this organic banter. This feels nice. Let's have Hank Azaria walking into the studio in the middle of it.

You know what I do? That's a good question to mean because I won't just have the alt broadcast. Like, I got to watch the actual game, so I'll put the old broadcasts on the small TV in the Zaslo Mansion family room. You know what I'm saying? You know about that small TV? I know all about the small TV.

I want to point out that I also, I watched Hollywood Dog yesterday. That's the Hank Azaria show that was... Your thoughts? I could see why I didn't get greenlit. Hank was great. Hank does this... He sounds a little like Duff Man.

A little bit like that. But you can see, like, the traces of other famous Hank Azaria of Washington. coming in. He's got like four main voices and then the rest are just like offshoots. Yeah. There's this voice right here. Yeah. Yeah. But, uh, woof. I mean, who, it was a dog. Hey, yeah. No, it was just, the idea was like, man, they, they watched Whofrey and Roger Ravre and like, oh, we could do that. All right. That's it. So this is the organic banter that

will not exist with Dan Pablo and David Samson in New York. Talk about wolf. Not wolf. Come on. Like, let's not lower expectations. No, no, no. No. No. I don't think they're going to have a Hollywood dog reference. This is going to be nice and smooth, and the audience is going to love it. Of course. Yes, and. I got to be honest with you. What's that?

Buddy in the right corner there is freaking me out. Is that Freddy Kruger? I mean, Jeremy looking like a burn victim over there. He looks like Freddie Kruger without a hat or a sweat, like a naked Freddy Kruger. That's what you are right? Naked Freddy Kuger. What do you mean? That's going to be a long show.

Oh, Jesus, I hate that. Thank God Dan's on here. Thank God Dan's not here. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stuttgart's podcast. We're off to a hot start. Dan's right. We're not on. Microphone.

In Dan's offense, he often. and doesn't have his microphone on in Miami. So I don't think this is so much a New York thing. That's a Dan thing? Is that what you're saying? I think it is a Dan thing. It happened once yesterday, and it turned out to be a Dan thing. This one's probably not a Dan thing, but let's try it again. Dan, take it away.

All right. Jaslow, do you have accesses to the buttons over there? I don't have the things that I need. This is not my fault. I understand that Mike Ryan is very good at blaming others, but this one is not my fault. and because I don't have access to all the buttons, I was getting mad at the way that Amin was explaining the yes and of the show. So can you just penalize him for me, please?

Minor penalty, two minutes for explaining the show. Thank you. I appreciate it. We've got David Sampson here. He may or may not be able to hear you in Miami. Pablo just got here. He came running a bit late into everything that we're doing. Very on time. I'm here. Hello. Show has started. I was here at the beginning.

You can't say you're on time and walk in during the open. That's not on time. I believe that literally that means that I was here before. I had to be on microphone. Hello. Hello. Hello. This has been David can hear us now. I don't think that he can because he doesn't have headsets on. That's okay. We'll figure out this as we go. This is all sloppy by design. And because I'm in New York for the holiday party, don't know how people feel about office holiday parties around here. I will say out loud to everyone listening to this that I'm very grateful to be in the presence of two close friends who has helped, who have helped us build this into a profitable company that is a network, that is a

real thing in a collapsing media environment and country. And I am proud to be with you guys here. Like, I'm genuinely moved that even with the technical difficulties, we have two spaceships in New York and Miami. I was, my parents, okay, had their most difficult time. in America in this city, moved from this city to get to a warm place, to get away from the cold of this city that I feel in my feet as I walk around. And I'm here to express my gratitude through a holiday party that is meant to be a celebration of the things we've built during a difficult time because you two have a unique access to how difficult the last five years have been. So thank you. I don't think holiday parties show gratitude. Okay. I think they show a budget

line item. I think what you do during the course of the year and the things that you do with allocating resources to help people and put shows off the ground. I think that people want their boss to do that more than just, you know, some eggnog. But I am here to show gratitude. I have flown from a place that I never want to leave to a place that I usually don't want to go to and a cold I definitely never want to go to in order to show gratitude that for those who don't understand what Metal Lark is doing, Miami and everything it is that we have built over 20 years in Miami is funding all the things that represent growth here in New York, and you two are seismic examples of what that growth looks like because you have created within our business to functioning

businesses. And so I am here. The reason I've flown here is to express that gratitude through a office holiday party that I feel like everyone in America hates the office holiday party. Do I have that wrong? Put it on the poll, please, Juju, at Lebitard show. Does everyone hate the office holiday party? No, we threw some amazing holiday parties back before there was canceling going on. Okay. In Montreal and in Florida. What does that mean?

What does that mean? A pre-cancellation David Sampson holiday party. That means that you've got the president of the team or the GM of the team dancing on tables with employees who are at different levels of the organization. It means the booze is flowing. It means that people are, we're making sure that people are being picked up by ride shares. It wasn't ride shares back then. We were making sure that people were getting home because it would get a fricty crazy.

Okay. You just couldn't do that, the type of holiday parties. I'm not saying that we threw dwarfs against a little people. Little people. Thank you. Dwarves. We didn't do that. You can say dwarves.

But it was close. You are all doing a little person. Okay, very good. Thank you for that. There it is. Whoa. You can't say. We voted for this.

Zagelow. Zaslow, can you please hit the accidental racism punishment button and get Mike Ryan out of the room, even though I'm going to need him shortly to talk about all of his binging recently. That's not great. Two minutes. Accidental racism. This is racism. The Mexican.

Not an accident. It's a good movie. Get him out of here. We also call Brad Williams. He has been binging Notre Dame podcast the last couple of days. Can you guys please show David and Pablo that, Notre Dame podcast, live reacting to everything it is that happened on the selection day that pissed off Notre Dame so much. Would you do me the favor? Roy, do you have that ready?

Give me a thumbs up if you have that ready, please. All right, play that, please. Certainly is going to be Miami or Notre Dame. So, number 10. No! Are you shitting me? All right. So he speaks for Notre Dame in its entirety. I want to, I want to ask David about the business of this. When Notre Dame, when their AD goes on the Dan Patrick show and says that the ACC has done irreparable damage, permanent damage. Permanent damage, but when Dan Patrick asked, is it fixable? He says, oh, yeah, of course it's fixable. So it doesn't suggest that it's permanent damage. What is the real business damage?

to the business relationship, given that Notre Dame's not in the ACC. They do share money when it comes to playing football games with each other, and the existence of Notre Dame creates money for the conference. But I didn't think the ACC did anything, really, that was offensive to Notre Dame. And it was confusing to me that Notre Dame would be going after the ACC instead of the SEC. Well, those are two different concepts. So remember, Notre Dame is not in the ACC for football only. for purposes of pretty much the rest of the campus that are part of the ACC.

But when it comes to the $4 million minimum that a conference makes for just being in the CFB, Miami getting in $4 million to the ACC, Notre Dame getting in $4 million to Notre Dame. That is a very big difference in terms of budget, in terms of what your take home actually is. So Notre Dame missing out actually hurt them significantly, whereas when regular teams get in, they get a percentage of it, but they share it with other members of the conference. But every Notre Dame sport is ACC except football. And there is a relationship in football and that Notre Dame plays ACC opponents, but it's almost like a stepchild where you're a part of the family

until you get right down to the end and then there's separation. Well, but some of this is pretty silly, right? Because the ACC is a great basketball conference, and Notre Dame's been okay at basketball. Notre Dame's moneymaker is football. keep that money to themselves because they don't want to share it with the ACC. Regardless, whatever it is you think the athletic director's job is in this circumstance. I believe it is to advocate on how it is that they've been wrong.

But this whimpering has caused a great deal of Notre Dame backlash. I don't know the right way to do this because we're in pretty unprecedented times when it comes to what it is that we're dealing with, with all the rules changing. They're trying to kind of figure this out as they go along. they're going to make all the mistakes and they're going to be learning. I don't know how Notre Dame's AD is supposed to handle it, but the way he's handled it has made it so that Mike Wilbon is totally comfortable on PTI saying, I hate Notre Dame.

But isn't that the thing that people have been saying about Notre Dame for like 40 years now? I think the joy of Notre Dame is that they are this. I was thinking about this the other day. Like, I want kids. I want kids today to understand why Notre Dame matters in college football. Unfortunately, I think this is the best way to do it. Like, they're a brand. They're a character in this because they have an overinflated sense of self that is also backed up by a truly impressive amount of national television money that they've drawn from for decades.

Dan, can you explain to people how big a deal Notre Dame was? Like, I think we're getting a diluted version, but this is now letting them reassert why they're delusionally special. Notre Dame made college football matter in this country. Notre Dame created the religious zealotry that there is around sports by being the first of the champions with all of the all of the players who mattered, but they haven't mattered like that in a long time. They parlayed that. A couple of times here and there they have played for a championship, but they haven't mattered like that. This was Alabama before Alabama. This was winning all the time. This was, you know, back at a time when an army and navy were, you know, respectable football programs. And Notre Dame, would drag them. Well, it went from, like, Army, Navy to Catholics versus convicts. I mean, that was, that was Miami, Notre Dame. Like, that what an, again, pre-cancellation era, a name for a rivalry, but like that's, it was an archetype. It was literal Jesus Christ, Golden Dome versus Mike Ryan and his gang of degenerates. Like, that's an incredible contrast

for college football to have indulged it. I want to get to Mike Ryan and second because he has been consuming mass consuming Notre Dame podcast. But what is the AD's job in this circumstance? Because the way that he has done this, he is passionately supporting his program and I imagine he is giving voice to what a lot of their fans feel. But what he's doing is making all of America turn against the whimpering, even if he's right. Yeah, I'm not sure that anyone has turned who wasn't already turned. So Notre Dame, as Pablo said, they're an interesting situation where you love them or you hate them. I'm not sure that anyone who loved them now hates them or anyone who hated them hates them less because of what happened. So I don't view

Notre Dame any differently than I did before they were part of the CFP in all the rankings. Then the question becomes, David, how would you handle this if you were trying to do this strategically? How would you lobby if you're Notre Dame? Because I'm like left to wonder, is there anything else they could be doing? Yes, I would be doing stuff. I wouldn't be doing on the Dan Patrick show. And that's not because I wouldn't be doing it on our show either. That's not the athletic director. That's not his job is to go out there and try to sway the PR of the people.

This is him introducing himself to America. A lot of people who are learning who this person is based on what he's giving voice to. But they'll forget about it in 20 minutes. So it's just not going to be effective in terms of lobbying to make Notre Dame. He already did the greatest job in AD can do and that this can never happen. to them again. And I assume that you've been talking about this. And Mike, it must make you insane to know that Notre Dame has a deal starting next year that if they're ranked in the top 12, they're in the CFP. And that is a deal that nobody else has. Yeah, I don't think it's super

fair. I also think it was a previous AD that might have negotiated that deal. I'm curious to watch this presser as someone that's not entirely thrilled with the ACC if Notre Dame thinks it has the power to bring about change if it thinks it can affect this conference as many of their fans think that Notre Dame can kill the ACC. I'll be happy. Yeah, go ahead and kill it. Miami is well positioned if this conference were to dissolve. But this is also a bit of a chicken shit presser in that you did mention, Dan, I've sampled the entirety of all Notre Dame content out there. And everyone's upset about the Alabama thing. No one can actually muster up an argument for Miami getting in over it. and the ACC thing is so superficial.

They're honestly worried about a couple of tweets and the ACC network replaying a game as if they could have hidden it from the public. Jim Phillips had one interview where he refused to take a shot at Notre Dame and just touted Miami a revenue-sharing football member of that conference. The real problem here is Greg Sankey is talking every day to Arkansas AD who just so happens to be the chair of the CFP.

But will this AD for Notre Dame Pete Babakwa find the balls to go at the SEC. I don't think so. He's picking the easy fight, one that's superficial, one that his entire base is not even that upset about. It's just lopped on to this whole argument of them being left out. That's why they're upset. They got left out in favor of an Alabama team.

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Fly Emirates, fly better. Don Lebertard. Oh, I like firing people, so I take the opportunity to fire whenever I possibly can because I can use it as a learning experience for them and try to help them out. and try to point out what they did wrong. But in this case, the employee was enough levels below where I was that I did not do the firing, but I had it done within moments of discovery.

I love me. I like firing people. It's just absurd. It's absurd. Stugats. I'm talking about people who I fire who deserve it, who have done something that actively requires me to fire them. It is my unadulterated pleasure to do so.

This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. David, why do you say now this is never going to happen again for Notre Dame? Because what they're claiming is that they should not have switched places and what's the purpose of the CFP rankings each week? And then if both teams didn't play, why was there a switch? If Alabama, does it hurt them? Does it not hurt them? Getting crushed by Georgia, I think 287 in the conference championship game.

And they've just eliminated all of the guesswork that has. happens in the fraternity room where they're throwing darts at different faces and teams where if they are ranked in a certain place, they get to stay in that ranking. I mean, but, but, but, actually, I'm sorry, Dan. I was going to say like, okay, so they're ranked in a certain place and they'll still get in, and that's top 12. Like, so what if next year there, they fall number 13? Yeah, there are guardrails. You could have had BYU ahead of them. We'll worry about that later. Right now, it's just a lot of misplaced anger, Dan, and them taking the easy fight. And it's making Notre Dame fans happy. He's doing.

what they want in making a stink. That's what you do when you miss one of these. It's just a little cowardly because the real issue here is Greg Sanky being the master puppeteer and Notre Dame not at all wanting to pick that fight. I don't know if you guys understood what Mike was saying. I do not. That they're mad about because the details on what Notre Dame appears to be mad about is that the ACC Network, one of the details, replayed the Miami Notre Dame game, re-aird the Miami Notre Dame game. What kind of thing is that to be angry about that the ACC network would Do you think that changed? The committee?

You think they got in and said, oh, did you catch that game? I was legitimately trying to figure out what is he so? This is disproportionate in reaction. It feels like coming home from the bad day at work and kicking the dog. The ACC did nothing meaningful to these people that had to do with Notre Dame not getting into this game. But if you're going to get indignant about the re-airing of a game as a starting point on where your anger is, then your anger gets disqualified as totally unreasonable. I don't know, Mike, what are the other things?

Like a couple of tweets? Yeah. The ACC was not sending out in mass anyone in propaganda or in press releases. Miami should be in because of their head-to-head record. against Notre Dame. That's not what was happening. It was part of the graphic, but there weren't direct shots at Notre Dame. It was more arguing Miami's case, and Miami wasn't the only team that they were doing this with. I think the Notre Dame angle would be, they didn't just replay the game.

They replayed the game eight times as. Like, wouldn't it have been crazy? Okay, so there's one game that is at the center of all conversation, and then the network played the game. wouldn't it have been crazy for them not to play the game for everyone to enjoy again and watch again and remember the thing that everyone is talking about? That's what Notre Dame is mad about.

The committee was assigned to re-watch the game so that they could vote for Miami instead of Notre Dame having watched that game wasn't even as close as it looked. I never heard that. You're saying there was an assignment. The committee sat in a room. Did they get like a ballroom in the hotel? No, that wet sock who runs it told everybody to re-watched.

it before they voted. You think they actually did? Well, he said they did. I don't know whether they did or not. He did assign it. Why would anyone do that? That's their job. I wish I had that kind of time. It's literally their job. To watch a game again? Yeah. To see who wins?

Yeah, to see how they won. To see how good the offensive line was? Well, this was why I felt good about my hand because happened to know that Nick Sabin was going to argue about what happened in that game. And a lot of CFP committee members turned on their television saw Nick Saban say, hey, I rewatch that game. Notre Dame got their asses kicked at the line of scrimmage, all right?

Thank God for that, Mike. There's a three-point loss for Notre Dame. Yeah, a game that they never led. I mean, you didn't watch the game, Bobo. You're in such a purecrap. You see that first drive in the second half? Lib. Find out about that.

16 plays. Thank you, Dan. There's a 16 play where I drive at the end of the beginning of the third quarter. Can you guys please put the camera on Jeremy for a second? Because I am not a Stranger Things fan. I was told that this is a villain. This is Vecna. I thought he was doing something from the Brown Man Group.

I was not clear on what it is that he was doing. And so do you watch Stranger Things? Do any of you? Because it is a good costume. I'm just sitting with Brown Man Group. Is that a reference? I thought it was Blue Man Group. It is Blue Man Group, but I just made it the Brown Man.

Let him cook. Nice going, go, man. Are you going to do that all show? You're going to do that all show? You gave me the opening. You went with Brown Man Group. I would never. We all made a noise.

I've only heard of the situation between one of the actors and one of the actresses. I'd never watched the show. And I thought, and I will admit this, and I'm fine, I'm old. I thought Millie, Bobby Brown was Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston's child. Me too. Fun fact. Had you seen her? Her real name is Millie Bonnie Brown, but she changed it to Millie Bobby Brown as a stage

name. Culture Vulture. Wait a minute. She changed her name to Bobby Brown? And now she's a Bon Jovi, so she is Millie Bonnie Bon Jovi. Billy, Bob, God. I have an objection here that was not talked about enough on yesterday's show. I need Amin to explain himself.

Amin yesterday on the show, I believe I am quoting correctly when I said, if people do not get up when he's trying to get through a crowded aisle, he will, I believe I'm quoting him correctly. He's crazy. Touch them with his hog, is what he said. I don't think you understand the meaning of the word quote because I never said I will touch them with my hog What I said was what you said was worse I'm coming through hog first So let me try to translate because I mean we may do it the exact same way when I'm annoyed at someone

Going into a middle seat in a row like at a play or a movie I will face them Where I'm front for front facing instead of Tushy facing But only but David only only only if they don't stand up. If they stand up, then I will go back to them. And you put your hands on their shoulders as you walk? I could. You know what?

I'm going to start doing that. That's a good idea. No, it's not a good idea. Hog first is not a good idea. Making a lot of eye contact while doing this is not a good idea. Dan, it's only when they are too rude to do the common courtesy. If someone's walking through the aisle, let me get up. Let me get up so you don't step on my feet.

Let me get up so you don't climb over my left. If you sit there, as I'm coming through, and you look, well, I'm not moving. Guess what? You're getting a big of little hog. You guys are giving yourself way too much credit here. Hog first is wild. Let me add one more thing I mean that I do. It's when someone doesn't move the drink from in front on the ground.

If there's anything shrapnel related on the floors, I'm trying to pass through. And I have to step over it. Give it a little tap. Then I do front facing. I'm with Chris Cody on this. You have been giving yourself too much credit because, When I think of Amin and David Sampson, I immediately say, and it's almost the first thing I always think of, those are not possessors of hogs. That's the first thing you think of.

Yeah, almost the first thing. I mean, you know about that hog? Trying to find out. I'm just saying. As if it's hitting like their knee, right? Yeah, no, but the hog, the hog represents a girth. And there's something being represented by hog that I don't believe to be represented by anyone in our group. go stub first there it would be better that that would be better but I mean you can't do

that to people yeah why did we pick hog yeah why did we pick hog for the animal for let's give it a new animal the shape of a hot thickness of a hog right you ever been to a clubhouse before some hogs why are you sharing that with everybody because that's where the name came from that the clubhouse well so hold on just people just to recap this because this is actually something I'm finding out for the first time. The reason why, and I guess I am also hog list by the extension of what the question I'm asking implies, you're saying that a bunch of these dudes' penises look like literal hawks. Wow.

I don't think that it's an optical thing. I think it's a thickness thing. They don't have eyes. The thickness of an animal. I believe that's what's happening. You guys prefer hammer? I don't like hammer. That sounds too.

I love a good hammer. Hammer is too vulgar. Too crude. That's peonies. No hammer. Hammer first. You're saying you go through hog first, though. It is.

I'm with Chris Cody on the idea that that assigns a verbal confidence to you that I don't associate with you. I don't know what you guys are doing. Do you want me to pull my hog out on national TV? Just saying when you're facing them, I don't think they're, I don't think. The first thing I think of when I think of you, of course, is something that I would want. What happened to? What happened to snake? No.

Or rooster. What? Rooster. Rooster? I like a good crank. Crank. Snake is good. Only when you're yanking.

You can yank a crank. And you could also crank it. No, wait. All right. Now we're doing Dr. Seuss of masturbation jokes. Is Pablo's fault. Crank is not an animal.

Crank is not an animal. That's not what we need an animal. We don't, I'm glad that you like crank and hammer. We're doing animals here. And Pablo limped in with a rooster for some reason. Snake is decent. Well, you can't. You didn't want to say cock, I imagine.

Yeah. There it is. Yeah. We've been told that people don't like that word. Now we have standards? I mean. I mean, it was an obvious one to take, but we can't say it. A rhino.

Wow. Rino, I don't know about that one. You can't find a white rhino anymore. They're now extinct. Rhino is thick. Rhino is thicker than a hog, and I believe it is that that's what we're doing with hog. Don Lebertard. It sounds to me like everybody could use a hug because a hog is always the right size.

Stugats. All I have put in my body today is three cups of coffee. in an entire cup of honey. Don't let him fool you. He said in the break that he's jittery. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. I can go back to Notre Dame for a second because I want to play some sound of a Texas A&M offensive linemen.

And this is something, his name is Trey Zoon. And this is something that I would say is unwise because he is unimpressed with Rubin Bain, and you should be impressed with Rubin Bain if you've watched him, unlike Pablo and the Notre Dame game. So let's hear the sound. Texas A&M is favored in this game. I don't believe Texas A&M and Miami will be playing the same sport that Mississippi and Tulane will be playing when Mississippi and Tulane go in the playoffs. Because I think that Miami and Texas A&M are a hell of a lot more close to profession.

But let's play this sound here on Ruben Bain and see how insulted Ruben Bain is going to be by this. I haven't had a time to watch any film yet since it just got announced, but, you know, I don't think he'll be a threat that we need to worry about too much. We know we have great players. We've got a great offensive line, so we'll be able to handle him. What are you shaking your head about David? You don't want to create bulletin board material. As a coach or a GM of a team like that, you're just, you're furious. There's no reason for it. The reason is bravado, right? The reason is. It doesn't work. It goes the other way, mostly. But Texas A&M wouldn't have any reason to be afraid of Miami.

Texas A&M is favored over Miami. Texas A&M has beaten everybody in their path, and they are good enough to win the title. So is Miami. Yeah, they didn't beat everybody in their path, and they've needed big comebacks. It's just not smart to do that to the nation's, I think, most feared pass rusher. And a guy that maybe some have questioned his motivation at times. He was an absolute demon against Notre Dame, and then he put out that IG story of his serial killer composition book, where he was like Notre Dame, more like Notre Dick, which I was a big fan of, and he had Jeremiah Love's name on it, and it looked crazy. And now you've motivated a guy that's going to be a top five draft pick in the NFL draft telling him that you're not worried about him.

I was so happy to see Trey Zune the third come out with this. Please. If you're not worried about him, don't chip him. Don't chip. Don't send another tight end over there because I know you love to run that kind of personnel. Go handle Ruben Bain man to man. Let's see how that works out, Trey. I mean, I wanted to bring you in here on something.

And Zaslow, too, as we talk about the NBA Cup, are you guys familiar with the amount of money involved for players on the NBA Cup, Pablo? Are you aware of what the – So it's 50,000 at the start. But if you get to the semis, each player under contract gets $106,000. If you get to the finals, it's $217,000. And then if you win the championship, it's half a million dollars. You get half a million dollars.

So it's real money that's being played for in the NBA Cup, no matter how irrelevant people might think it is. You got a 6 p.m. start for the heat tonight. And the thing I wanted to ask Amin about is Jha and Janus are on the board for everybody right now before the trade deadline. And I would assume, based on Pat Riley's history and what? what the window is for him, that he will trade any of these players if he can get into the Janus game. The Jha game is a more difficult game.

And Mike Ryan was wondering before the show, why wouldn't Miami try and get both of them and see if they would become the immediate favorites in the east? And then Perakeet Cortez yelled at him for about a half hour about not wanting Jha. Where are you on all this, I mean? Well, Mark Stein's reporting is that the Bucks keep telling everybody that Yonis is not available. They're not trying to trade them. But having said that, 29 teams keep sending, you know, feelers and... Teams never do that and then end up trading the guy.

Yeah, no, that's never happened before in the history of the game. The Janus problem, or I should say problem, but difficulty if you're the Miami Heat, is that there are so many suitors with more attractive pieces that they can throw into a deal. I know Jake Fisher talked about any Miami Heat Janus trade has to include Kellel Ware. that's a non-negotiable. But even with Kalalware in there, you're still kind of falling short out of what some of these other teams can offer. I was talking to Zaz about this yesterday, about Jock.

If you're Miami, there might be an advantage. While everyone is kind of stockpiling for Yannis, you might be able to get in there and get Jopper less than what it would be, where he the marquee target. Yeah, especially because I think, to a mean's point, I think every team in the league would want to trade for Yannis, and every team in the league is willing to give up whatever Milwaukee wanted for Janus. That's definitely not the case for Jha, but I'm not a fan.

Like, I don't think it gets the heat where they want to get to if they trade for John Morant. And on top of it, they got one of their, you know, advisors is the guy who started to create this offense in Memphis last year, which led to Joggin and Taylor Jenkins fired. What are we doing? I mean are you okay because off camera it seems like you went hurtling out of the room coughing and blowing pay yeah all right so tissue all over the place look at him look at him just broken what's the matter with you you sick I might have caught something over the weekend it's actually better than it was yesterday yesterday I was really bad that's you good so wrong that he's there so you're just coughing so Whatever we were doing during the pandemic to make sure that other people didn't get sick. We have now ignored that. We've got somebody on air coughing their way off camera and a way that can barely speak.

It's only a problem if the cameras and the mics are all focused on me for the waiting for me to call for the next one. Let's push in on a mean if you could. What are your thoughts here, David? There it is. I'm dealing with AI. Just keep going in on him. Just go get closer and closer. See the sickness in his eyes.

I want you to look into his eyes. Yes. See, see, just get, let's see if we can get the audience on YouTube sick by just looking at a mood. He looks like how Notre Dame fans feel. That's how he would come at you. A hog first if you dared to not get up from your seat at the Broadway theater. David, I'm sorry, I interrupted you. I'm just hoping that it can't go through the wires.

Because you sounded terrible yesterday, so I was reticent to come in today. you didn't sound like yourself. Are you sick? I am not sick. I'm fine. I do have a general problem, though. I don't think it's an official allergy or sickness. I do have a problem with how cold the earth is here in New York. Every floor I walk into, people keep saying to me because I wear too much clothes inside, they're like, it's warm in here. Why are you still wearing clothes? And I'm like, because every floor I'm stepping on, no matter how warm it is inside, isn't staying warm on the earth. You people are not able to, warm the 20 degree earth that I'm standing on. So what's your comment about global warming? Just not today, not here. Oh, Dan. What are you doing? Denying, you're denying climate change?

I'm just saying that I want to make sure you're able to argue that point when someone responds to you because you tend to lean more toward the, the world's falling apart. You guys don't like this. For all the people who like seasonal changes, you guys do not like this weather. Am I wrong? Seasons are character building. I hate it. I miss Florida.

My blood is still thin. I've been here for five years. I've been back, and I'm still not. I hate it. But Florida right now is no picnic. What do you mean? It's 73 degrees right now in Miami. That is literally where you would have a picnic.

But the rest of it. That is the, that's the temperature that you want to picnic at. How do you feel about the 6 p.m. games, Aslo? Oh. The 6 p.m. start time tonight. I'm tempted to call it the Lord Star Time. I knew it. Really?

He could get to bed then. The Lord's start time. I mean, 6 p.m., who's not watching? Who's not staying up for the very end of the game? Are you kidding? It's a pleasure tonight. The game will be over at 8.30. I could still get in an activity if I want before bed.

An activity. An activity before bed? Maybe. Your bed hog first? Do we like bulge first better? Yes. Put it on the poll at Levitard show. would you be in favor of 6 p.m. start times throughout sports and also is 6 p.m. the Lord's start time.

What's going on with Terry Rozier? Can you guys explain to me what's happening with this contract and the inability to trade this contract and you can't trade a contract that's under FBI investigation and what did Charlotte know and when did they know it? What is the most credible reporting on this? Well, it really isn't clear as far as the reporting. The people, I've talked to say that it's not eligible to be traded until this thing is clarified, which kind of sucks for Miami because, again, if the implication is that Charlotte knew, that means they were basically on disadvantage in acquiring him and placed under the same disadvantage in trying to divest of him, especially because I don't think anyone at this point

would acquire him for his basketball play. If he were traded, it's because the money adds up and it makes sense, and it's easy for someone to say, oh, at the end of the year, it comes off the books. So it is kind of a tough situation, but we don't have an official stance, I don't believe, from the league, as far as whether he's tradable or not. Yeah, so, Dan, yesterday, Timbontemps and Bobby Marks put out a piece on ESPN.com because yesterday was the day

that Terry Rojier, you know, pled not guilty in front of a judge yesterday. And in the story yesterday, sources told ESPN the heat were not aware of the NBA's investigation when they traded for Rozier. Rozier, he did not appear in a single playoff game for Miami. The Hornets, when asked by ESPN, whether they were aware of the league's investigation before the trade declined to comment. Come on. And it's not just that the heat don't have their pick for 2026.

Because they don't have their pick for 2026, they're also not allowed to trade their pick for 2027 because you can't trade back-to-back years. and the pick may not convey this year, it may convey in 27, which means they also can't trade 28. So, like, it's really hampering the heat's ability to be able to make a move for a guy like John Morant or for a guy like Janice and Tedocumpo. And the Hornets seemingly kept this information from Miami. Yeah, worth pointing out, like blocks from here yesterday, Dan, all of the alleged participants. in this gambling and betting and poker scheme, they were brought in. I mean, this is Terry Rozier and his attorney, who, by the way, they hired a Trump attorney

because that's what you do when you're for the federal government. They're showing up and they're claiming, of course, innocence. But the big beef is exactly that question of what did you know and when did you know it. And the eater is saying, why are we the last to know pretty much everything?